Yay! The Eureka Matrix arc is done! Jo and Jack are not in love, Kevin is not in College, Andy is okay and all is almost right with the world.

I liked the Senator Bitch caught in a loop at the end. I hope she is somewhere that she can't be found. Ever. Though, her being missing may raise some eyebrows towards Eureka.

Enjoyed the episode and how they got it all together. The scene with Zane and Jack in the woods was my favorite. The Zane actor is great with facial expressions and you saw it all click as Jack was babbling incoherently and trying to remember what he wrote on his hand. I had been missing that Jack.

I was surprised they didn't come up with some excuse that Zane had to take a pill before the zap, that happened to be a blue pill.

Even compared to Eureka's usual standard of playing very fast and loose with internal consistency, the "derez" threat seemed particularly unjustifiable and required a very strained suspension of disbelief.

The Senator is standing there with a bunch of armed guards and is bothering to argue ethics with Henry? Why bother? You, there, point your gun at this man. Done.

Why the heck are the subroutines bothering to render themselves doing things like seduce one another when as far as they know no one is even watching? The first time I thought it was intentional, the kiss Alison saw was deliberately staged where she'd spy on it. But why would Jo be working so hard on Carter, if Fargo was only even there on the DL? They even said later that it doesn't bother to visually render places where none of the crew are. Last week, NPC-Carter kept watching Holly after she collapsed.

Lest it seem I was down on the episode, I enjoyed it. As often happens, Colin Ferguson's performance lifted it out of all the bad-ridiculous.

Still, I'm glad that this arc isn't going to go on all season, like it was starting to seem it would.

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I was surprised they didn't come up with some excuse that Zane had to take a pill before the zap, that happened to be a blue pill.

Even compared to Eureka's usual standard of playing very fast and loose with internal consistency, the "derez" threat seemed particularly unjustifiable and required a very strained suspension of disbelief.

The Senator is standing there with a bunch of armed guards and is bothering to argue ethics with Henry? Why bother? You, there, point your gun at this man. Done.

Why the heck are the subroutines bothering to render themselves doing things like seduce one another when as far as they know no one is even watching? The first time I thought it was intentional, the kiss Alison saw was deliberately staged where she'd spy on it. But why would Jo be working so hard on Carter, if Fargo was only even there on the DL? They even said later that it doesn't bother to visually render places where none of the crew are. Last week, NPC-Carter kept watching Holly after she collapsed.

Lest it seem I was down on the episode, I enjoyed it. As often happens, Colin Ferguson's performance lifted it out of all the bad-ridiculous.

Still, I'm glad that this arc isn't going to go on all season, like it was starting to seem it would.

Illogical as it sounds the implication is that the NPC's can tell if other characters are NPCs or not. So they wouldn't know when to skip interactions because everyone involved is NCP.

I guess the rendering engine could potentially know that without violating the seperation of NPCs. It might be possible for it to 'cheat' and let the NPC interactions play out without rendering the scene for them. But depending on how the NPC's preceptions were coded that might not work; you might need to feed them input from their 'eyes' for them to operate. After all you can apparently swap out an NPC for a real charactor on the fly; that could mean that NPCs get all the inputs matrixed real charactors brains get...

Enjoyed the episode quite a bit. I'm sure that if I were to analyze all the computer graphics of the Matrix, there would be all kinds of problems, but the story was mostly coherent and it flowed quickly and nicely. I'm glad that subplot is over, and having Beverly escape means there will likely be one more standoff with her before the series ends.

I didn't hate this whole matrix storyline, but I'm glad it is over. I was afraid the entire season was going to be about this. I kinda wish I'd known in advance it was going to be a 4 episode long story.